Word: means
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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These words of the Prime Minister, said Major Attlee, were "a thoroughly mean attack on the United States of America." Recalling that Stanley Baldwin was educated at swank Harrow School, the Major added as his parting shot: "It has been said that Waterloo was won on the playing field of Eton. Abyssinia was lost on the playing fields of Harrow...
...guest speaker last month (TIME, June i). Because Dr. Kagawa has sponsored seven kinds of successful cooperative movements in Japan and because he expounded them wherever he found listeners in the U. S., some businessmen professed to be alarmed. Warned Tide, advertising monthly: "What Dr. Kagawa and his cohorts mean to advertising in the long view is more serious by a good deal than anything Dr. Schlink of Consumers' Research and his cohorts mean." Referring to Dr. Kagawa as "the Jap," the Ohio Agency Bulletin told insurance agents that co-operatives "would put you out of business...
...Trends toward the organization of large medical and health centres, sickness insurance and possibly state medicine," observed Isabel Maitland Stewart, Columbia University's professor of nursing education, "probably mean fewer free-lance nurses and more organizations in groups, fewer de luxe nurses catering to the wealthy and more serving the needs of the common people, fewer nurses for the sick and more working on the preventive end of the job." Despite the deadly seriousness of their meetings, the 10,000 nurses in Los Angeles last week enjoyed some diversions. United Air Lines offered a stewardess job to the graduate...
This was generally assumed to mean that the dissident Democrats would vote, and perhaps campaign, for Alf M. Landon. But by the time their telegram, in preparation since March 9, had been made public, there were two standards to which Al Smith & Co. could rally...
...turned as red as Captain Eden, but when he rose to reply the Prime Minister was white with controlled fury. "People may say we are acting from cowardice," he growled. "We, as trustees of the people, ought to remember that if there be war in this country-I mean nearer than the Mediterranean-they will pay for it on the first night with their lives! . . . The first blow may come on the day that Sanctions are applied against an aggressor...